I once worked on a life-size nude female figure. It was to be an honest -- if a bit idealized -- portrait of someone I was in a relationship with. As such, it was going to include certain features of her body that only her mother and her husband would know about. Needless to say, when she realized my intention she made me change them. We broke it off not long afterward, and the painting was left unfinished. This paper doll is a kind of tribute, to both her and the failed relationship (which I guess was a non-starter anyway), hence the skull and the black patch hiding her identity.
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